⥉ amazon indie ᐬ With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa ⦦ By E.B Sledge 䓈

⥉ amazon indie ᐬ With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa ⦦ By E.B Sledge 䓈 Eugene Sledge became than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinaryinto terms we mortals can grasp.Tom HanksIn all the literature on the Second World War, there is not a honest, realistic or moving memoir than Eugene Sledge s This is the real deal, the real war unvarnished, brutal, without a shred of sentimentality or false patriotism, a profound primer on what it actually was like to be in that war It is a classic that will outlive all the armchair generals safe accounts ofnot the good warbut the worst war ever.Ken Burns From the Trade Paperback edition.Eugene Sledge became than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary into terms we mortals can grasp Tom Hanks In all the literature on the Second World War, there is not a honest, realistic or moving memoir than Eugene Sledge s This is the real deal, the real war unvarnished, brutal, without a shred of sentimentality or false patriotism, a profound primer on what it actually was like to be in that war It is a classic that will outlive all the armchair generals safe accounts of not the good war but the worst war ever Ken Burn Of all the books about the ground war in the Pacific, With the Old Breed is the closest to a masterpiece The New York Review of Book With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa